Philosophical reflections on perfume and perfumery:
An exploration of aesthetic, epistemological, metaphysical, moral, ontological, and phenomenological issues.
Relevant comments are most welcome—whether you agree or disagree!

Thursday, May 19, 2016

This will sound amazing, but I was planning to mostly forego perfume this summer. The Perfume Gods had a different idea, and in fact strongly demurred upon my arrival in the United Kingdom. As a result, I an indeed traveling with a summer wardrobe, and a very nice selection indeed:

Friday, January 1, 2016

I wrote very few words about perfume in 2015. I did wear quite a few perfumes, though there were entire weeks when I wore none. In some cases, I was staying in places where perfume was not "socially acceptable" so I decided to abide by the reigning dogmas, as misguided as they may have seemed to me to be. When I am a guest, I aim not to offend, and the difficult truth, my finely scented friends, is that a huge portion of humanity knows nothing about perfume, and has no desire to know anything about it either!

During my off-the-grid experience (six week!!!!) I did wear lots of perfume and drink many kinds of tea, but I did not log any of it until I returned to the grid. I generally don't wear many different perfumes on a single day, but sometimes I logged an entire list at one time.